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Soros Series: Esperanto is (not) dead: About the enduring discrepancy between the perception of Esperanto as a language without culture and its extraordinary cultural achievements

CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Ave, New York

Speaker: Ulrich Becker Throughout the history of Esperanto, its proponents have been confronted with the criticism that they are promoting a language that cannot develop a sustainable culture, because its speakers are not an ethnically or culturally definable entity or based in a geographically unified area. The actual cultural achievements …

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Soros Series: Militopucos’: James Joyce and Universal Language

CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Ave, New York

Speaker: Nico Israel A discussion of passages addressing Esperanto in James Joyce's novels Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, as approached by a non-Esperantist literary scholar. At issue are Joyce's positions on art, language and gesture in an age of war. Nico Israel is Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center …

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Soros Series: Is Esperanto dangerous?

CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Ave, New York

Speaker: Ulrich Lins As speakers of a 'dangerous language', the adepts of Esperanto were harassed and persecuted. The fate of Esperanto can be seen as a barometer to measure the degree to which regimes tolerate the desire for direct person-to-person international communication. After the fall of Fascism and Stalinism, conditions were …

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